2133MHz ram with Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 and Fx8320

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Whitty21

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Wondering if it is possilble to run G-skill 16gb 2133 ram on this set up. It is the same price as 1866 ram at the local shop on sale right now.

The timing is 10-12-12-31 at 1.60V

I know 2133 setups work, but I am wondering about the timing? I guess I could just adjust the timing in the BIOS correct? Or... should I just go with the 1866, the only reason I am thinking 2133 is that I may upgrade motherboards in the not so near future...

Thanks in advance
 
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this is fine. nothing to worry about. Now If you stay at 1866 you may be able to lower the timings. This may not work well for you so you may have to play around with the timings But my set of G.Skill Ares 1866 ram runs 9-10-9-28-37 timings.

Download Memtest86+ from www.memtest.org . Put it on either a flash drive or CD/DVD and run it from in the bios as a boot device. It has its own UI and does not need windows running to work. This tests the ram and will tell you if the ram is stable. Run this for 3 full passes.

EDIT: of your board can handle it set the NB frequency to 2600 MHz.
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Ge the 2133 if you are going to get a new motherboard. The motherboard you have will have issues overclocking due to the VRM not having a cooler on the mosfet's.

While the Memory controller can be pushed to to handle 2133 you may find that you might not reach that exact frequency. This will depend on how good the controller is on your CPU. As for the timings you might have to relax then a little to hold the 2133 MHz or not at all. Overclocking is not a science and we can only guess at what your system will do. You can run the 2133 MHz ram at 1866 for now if you can not get it stable above this till you get a new board so go for the 2133 now and experiment.
 
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Whitty21

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I decided to go ahead and open the 2133. I set the frequency to 1866 and the timing to what was on the ram. Here is what CPUZ is telling me. The NB requency is going over 2133, is this normal? I am not too well-versed on memory.
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Thanks

 
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this is fine. nothing to worry about. Now If you stay at 1866 you may be able to lower the timings. This may not work well for you so you may have to play around with the timings But my set of G.Skill Ares 1866 ram runs 9-10-9-28-37 timings.

Download Memtest86+ from www.memtest.org . Put it on either a flash drive or CD/DVD and run it from in the bios as a boot device. It has its own UI and does not need windows running to work. This tests the ram and will tell you if the ram is stable. Run this for 3 full passes.

EDIT: of your board can handle it set the NB frequency to 2600 MHz.
 
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